Since MariaDB is a fork from MySQL, the syntax is similar, but MariaDB has several additional features. Basic SQL syntax remains the same, but MariaDB handles data storage and functions differently.

Second, the MySQL and MariaDB implementations of the native JSON column data type are also different. This makes for slight incompatibilities that you will need to navigate if you’re migrating ...

If you still think MySQL is too entrenched to be moved from its spot as the number one, open-source DBMS, you might to look at what Wikipedia is doing.

MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clustrix, which itself is a MySQL TechCrunch Desktop Logo TechCrunch Mobile Logo ...

MariaDB never should have happened. Monty Widenius, the founder of both MySQL and MariaDB, made a bundle selling MySQL to Oracle years ago, but he then launched MariaDB to try to return the heart ...

The differences between MariaDB 5.5 and MySQL 5.6 are quite significant, with major improvements in both performance and stability, as well as additional features and improved security." ...

But in the affected versions of MariaDB and MySQL, as MontyProgram's Sergei Golubchik wrote in a list posting on June 9, the database can be fooled into accepting a password even if it doesn't match.

At the beginning of February this year, MariaDB announced that it had been able to agree a temporary payment deferral with its creditors. MariaDB was created 15 years ago as a spin-off from MySQL.

BOSTON, Oct. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- DBmaestro, the leading database DevOps solution provider, announced today to expanded its database automation platform to enable CI/CD and release automation ...

MySQL founder Michael “Monty” Widenius and his co-founder David Axmark, however, came up with a different model a few years ago: the Business Source License (BSL).